It makes sense if you think of it in terms of a manual typewriter - the carriage-return lever winds the platen (the line feed), and if you keep pushing the leve

It makes sense if you think of it in terms of a manual typewriter - the carriage-return lever winds the platen (the line feed), and if you keep pushing the lever, you return the carriage to the beginning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Standardization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Standardization